{"id":1405,"date":"2025-12-01T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.ufl.edu\/rcr\/?page_id=1405"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:45:25","slug":"usda-nifa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.ufl.edu\/rcr\/training-requirements\/usda-nifa\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA National Institute for\u00a0Food and Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:37px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NIFA RCR Training Requirement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The USDA National Institute for\u00a0Food and Agriculture (NIFA) requires all program directors, faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and staff who are paid from NIFA grants receive RCR training. The RCR training provided to each individual must be documented and is subject to NIFA review. Read NIFA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nifa.usda.gov\/grants\/regulations-and-guidelines\/terms-conditions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Terms &amp; Conditions<\/a>. For newer versions of the NIFA Agency Specific Terms and Conditions, please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awards\/managing\/rtc.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NSF host website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UF Requirement for NIFA-Sponsored Training <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to NIFA\u2019s requirement, the University of Florida requires all Principal Investigators, faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and staff who are paid (salary and\/or stipend) directly from a NIFA sponsored project to complete the RCR Training provided through the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.ufl.edu\/rcr\/training-requirements\/citi\/\">Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIFA RCR Training Requirement The USDA National Institute for\u00a0Food and Agriculture (NIFA) requires all program directors, faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and staff who are paid from NIFA grants receive RCR training. The RCR training provided to each individual must be documented and is subject to NIFA review. Read NIFA&#8217;s Terms &amp; Conditions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-navigation.php","meta":{"featured_post":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ufl.edu\/rcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ufl.edu\/rcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ufl.edu\/rcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ufl.edu\/rcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ufl.edu\/rcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/research.ufl.edu\/rcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/research.ufl.edu\/rcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405\/revisions\/1569"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ufl.edu\/rcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ufl.edu\/rcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ufl.edu\/rcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ufl.edu\/rcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}